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  • A quick primer on running online events and meetings

    Meetings and gatherings are vital components of evaluation. Often these are done face-to-face, however sometimes necessity or practicality makes meeting online the best option.
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  • Objectives-Based Evaluation (OBE) for impact investing

    Bob Picciotto is a former Director General of the Independent Evaluation Group which oversees evaluation in the International Finance Corporation, an agency dedicated to the promotion of private sector development in developi
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  • Learning from exemplars of evaluation

    Are there particular examples of evaluations that you return to think about often? 
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  • Institutional history

    An institutional history (IH) is a narrative that records key points about how institutional arrangements – new ways of working – have evolved over time and have created and contributed to more effective ways to achieve project or programme
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  • Creating Rubrics

    This web page gives detailed guided assistance in creating rubrics.
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  • Engaging scientists through institutional histories

    This brief from the Institutional Learning and Change Initiative (ILAC), describes the reasoning and methods for producing Institutional Histories (IH).
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  • The rubric revolution

    Three linked presentations from Jane Davidson, Nan Wehipeihana & Kate McKegg explaining how rubrics can be used to ensure evaluations validly answer evaluative questions. 
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  • Formal meeting processes

    Studies have demonstrated that attendance at meetings and conferences, planning discussions within the project related to use of the program evaluation, and participation in data collection foster feelings of evaluation involvement among st
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  • Conducting effective meetings

    This paper from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) provides a number of strategies to ensure that meetings reach stated objectives in an engaging and productive manner.
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  • Evaluation rubrics: how to ensure transparent and clear assessment that respects diverse lines of evidence

    This report provides a detailed description of an evaluation, written by Judy Oakden, as part of the first BetterEvaluation writeshop process, led by Irene Guijt.
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  • Rubrics

    A rubric is a framework that sets out criteria and standards for different levels of performance and describes what performance would look like at each level.
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  • Guest blog: Why rubrics are useful in evaluations

    In Aoteoroa New Zealand the use of rubrics has been adopted across a numb
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  • 52 weeks of BetterEvaluation: Week 11: Using rubrics

    The term "rubric" is often used in education to refer to a systematic way of setting out the expectations for students in terms of what would constitute poor, good and excellent performance.
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